Detecting Emotional Context for Safer Digital Mental Health Agents
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Choi, Adi
Li, Weihua
Warren, Jim
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IOS Press
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Digital tools for mental health show great promise, but concerns arise when they fail to recognize the user state. We train a classifier to detect the emotional context of dialogs among 6 categories, achieving 78% accuracy on top choice. Importantly greatest areas of confusion (excited-hopeful, angry-sad) are not of the most unsafe kind. Such a classifier could serve as a resource to the dialog managers of future digital mental health agents.Description
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Dialog agents, empathetic computing, e-therapy, machine learning, Dialog agents, e-therapy, empathetic computing, machine learning, 4203 Health Services and Systems, 42 Health Sciences, Mental Health, Mental health, 3 Good Health and Well Being, 0807 Library and Information Studies, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Medical Informatics, 4203 Health services and systems, 4601 Applied computing
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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, ISSN: 0926-9630 (Print); 0926-9630 (Online), IOS Press, 310, 1442-1443. doi: 10.3233/SHTI231235